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Topic: Blue Glass Piggy Bank (Read 7619 times)

Me again I've got this blue glass piggy bank, it was filthy when I bought it and has evidence of age related wear, it also has a 1961 silver sixpence inside it. Any ideas on the maker? It looks nothing like the Holmegaard piggies in my books - cheers for any help ...

Hi again, I've found a very similar glass piggy bank in amber glass with a label on it which reads 'Cascade, England' - it looks to have a lot in common with my blue piggy bank. Despite Googling I can't find any information about this company and I've not heard of them before - does it ring any bells with anyone on here?

I have a recollection that "Cascade Glass" was a trade mark used ( with a black and silver label of a fountain cascading down by one of our pressware comeptitors now defunct. So it may be Waterstone Glass of Wath upon Wear near Rotherham, Wodd Bros, or Trent Valley.I have not seen a catalogue for ages, and I left my archives on defunct British Glass to the Broadfield House Museum in Kingswinford, near Stourbridge. A call to Roger Dodsworth the curator ( and author of "British Glass between the Wars" may solve the mystery!The blue looks like Waterstone who made mainly bottles and ashtrays and a few things like eye baths in that blue. (See Eyebath website for Woods as well!)Sorry not a definite solution but a lead perhaps...Fancy giving away my archives in July and deciding in September to start collecting British Domestic Glass! Doah! What a plonker!

.......Sorry not a definite solution but a lead perhaps...Fancy giving away my archives in July and deciding in September to start collecting British Domestic Glass! Doah! What a plonker!

Thanks for that Stephen - that's really helpful I'll follow the information up. I've put my piggy up for sale but it's a nice little thing and a strong colour which seems to be generating quite a lot of interest (watchers) so I'd quite like to find out more in case I come across another in the future. I've been laughing at your 'plonker' comment - maybe that's a little harsh though, my daughter would call you a 'divvie' not a plonker